India Moving Towards Quality — Now Tea Too Bears a Mark of Quality
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Tea is a popular beverage in our daily lives. Now, a significant initiative has been taken to further strengthen the quality, testing, and traceability of Indian tea.
The Tea Mark is a voluntary quality certification and assurance scheme launched by the Tea Board of India. Its objective is to provide a reliable and consumer-visible quality and traceability mark for tea sold in the domestic market.
The Tea Mark indicates that the tea has been tested and verified according to prescribed procedures and complies with applicable control orders and FSSAI parameters. This provides consumers additional confidence regarding the quality of the tea.
An important aspect of this scheme is Supply Chain Traceability. This scheme will make information related to the tea supply chain more transparent and help trace information related to the source and processing of tea.
Another important aspect of the Tea Mark is quality control. The certification process includes procedures such as prescribed testing, inspection, and batch permission. The Tea Board has issued guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for this purpose. The Tea Mark Licensing Portal and the ‘Tea Marketplace’ portal became operational online in July 2026.
This certification is optional. Obtaining the Tea Mark is not mandatory for tea manufacturers, and the scheme does not impose any restrictions on the general sale or distribution of non-certified tea. The scheme is available to eligible tea manufacturers registered under the Tea (Marketing) Control Order, 2003.
The Tea Board has also released a list of FSSAI-notified and NABL-accredited laboratories for testing tea samples. The list, dated July 9, 2026, lists such laboratories for testing tea samples under the Tea Board's jurisdiction.
Thus, the Tea Mark is not just a logo, but an important initiative towards quality assurance and traceability. It can help promote quality, transparency, and consumer confidence in the Indian tea industry.
India Moving Towards Quality—Tea Too Now Has a Mark of Quality.
Guidelines, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Licensing Portal, and other official information related to the Tea Mark are available on the Tea Board of India website.
Regards,
Keshav Ram Singhal
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